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BSW - CAA - Bouncing Ball Physics

Bouncing Ball Physics Animation

        We was tasked to create these two animations by Nat Urwin who provided us with a short PDF to keep us in check. Nat gave us a briefing on what to do and how to do it and we set off creating these short but key animations to help us progress in our knowledge in the software.

The idea and process is quite simple but requires precise adjustments to the objects in motion to make the animation look physically correct and smooth! I began by drawing the arcs - guide lines - to where the ball would follow, to do this was no problem and I completed it quickly, I locked the layer and moved onto the ball. I think I took a different approach to most people by first laying down where the ball would be positioned in each frame by pressing F7 - the 'next frame' key. Then I edited the ball in each frame afterwards. I got to get the ball looking natural and a bit more cartoony which might sound like it contradicts itself! I did this by squashing and stretching the ball at points where it was quickest or points where it hit the ground. The bellow image is the onion skin from the finished animation and the GIF bellow that is the final exported product.


This task was kind of the same premise as before however this time there would be three different balls all with different weights to them. Obviously the balls do not weigh anything in the software but it was our task to make the viewer think that they do. There is a ping pong ball, a tennis ball and a bowling ball. I wanted to add my own twist to the animation as originally Nat wanted the balls to fall from the top straight down but I decided to show something that would portray their weight better. A funnel! This meant the lighter balls would bounce more the lighter they were and the bowling ball just slam down and roll. I thought that I pulled off this animation quite well however if I were to do it again I would add more frames to the tennis balls path as it looks a bit choppy compared to the others... 

Bellow is the onion skin for the final animation and again bellow that is the final exported GIF! 

 










 

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